tasklets don't allow invocation to sleeping routines. In configure_dma() routine, sg_alloc_table() was called with GFP_KERNEL flag and so this causes crash when called from tasklet.
Replace GFP_KERNEL with GFP_ATOMIC to get this fixed. Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.ku...@st.com> Tested-by: Linus Walleij <linus.wall...@linaro.org> --- drivers/spi/spi-pl022.c | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi-pl022.c b/drivers/spi/spi-pl022.c index f600d00..80116be 100644 --- a/drivers/spi/spi-pl022.c +++ b/drivers/spi/spi-pl022.c @@ -1019,11 +1019,11 @@ static int configure_dma(struct pl022 *pl022) pages = (pl022->cur_transfer->len >> PAGE_SHIFT) + 1; dev_dbg(&pl022->adev->dev, "using %d pages for transfer\n", pages); - ret = sg_alloc_table(&pl022->sgt_rx, pages, GFP_KERNEL); + ret = sg_alloc_table(&pl022->sgt_rx, pages, GFP_ATOMIC); if (ret) goto err_alloc_rx_sg; - ret = sg_alloc_table(&pl022->sgt_tx, pages, GFP_KERNEL); + ret = sg_alloc_table(&pl022->sgt_tx, pages, GFP_ATOMIC); if (ret) goto err_alloc_tx_sg; -- 1.7.2.2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ uberSVN's rich system and user administration capabilities and model configuration take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the tools developers use with it. Learn more about uberSVN and get a free download at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-dev2dev _______________________________________________ spi-devel-general mailing list spi-devel-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spi-devel-general